Electric iron attachment



June 7, 1932. w. MACKENZIE, JR

ELECTRIC IRON ATTACHMENT Filed March 2, 1951 Patented June '7, 1932 rice WILLIAM MACKENZIE, JR., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ELECTRIC IEQN ATTACHMENT Application filed March fl, 1931. Serial No. 519,539.

This invention relates to certain novel improvements in electric iron attachments, and has for its principal object the provision of an improved construction of this character L which will be highly eflicient in use and economical in manufacture.

The salient object of this invention is to provide a device for keeping the cord or feed wire of an electric iron out of engagement with the object being ironed, and for holding said cord out of entangling engagement with the iron itself or with the operators arms.

Another object of the invention is to provide an improved device of the class de- 15, scribed herein which will function equally well with a cord connected to either an overhead or a floor outlet.

Oth r objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawing showin the preferred form of construction,

and in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of a typical electric iron showing the present invention associated therewith;

Fig. 2 is an end elevational view looking in at the right hand end of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the invention taken on line 33 in Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a hinge structure embodied in the invention.

Referring to the drawing wherein a preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated, an electric iron of conventional design indicated at 10 and has a handle supporting bracket 11 attached thereto by suitable connecting elements 12. Extending between the links of the bracket 11 is a han dle 13. Projecting upwardly from the housing of the iron 10 are the usual terminals 1 1 and 15 with which is associated a plug in switch 16.

The handle supporting bracket 11 is substantially U-shaped and includes arms or links 1'? and 18 and the front limb 18 is bifurcated at its upper end to provide the spaced arms and the slot 21 therebetween.

(Fi 4..) Aligned openings 22 are provided in the upper ends of the arms 19 and 20 and extending through these openings and across slot 21 is a pintle 23 on which are mounted the resilient or yieldable arms 24 and 25 that are formed by the bifurcation of the lower end of abar 26, the arms 24 and 25 having openings therein for the passage of the pintle 23 therethrough.

A recess 27 is formed in each of the arms 19 and 20 and these recesses open into slot 21 (Fig. 4). On each of the arms 24: and 25 is a boss 28 and by reference to Fig. it will be seen that when the bar 26 is swung into the upright position of Figs. 1 and 2, the bosses 28 will engage the sides 29 of the arms 18 and 19 and this engagement will force the resilient or yieldable arms 2A and 25 toward each other so that when the bar 26 comes into upright or vertical position the bosses 28 will, by reason of the tension on the arms I 24 and 25, snap into the recesses 27 and thereby hold the bar 26 in upright position.

On the upper end of the bar 26 a substantially U-shaped member 30 is mounted by means of a suitable connecting element 31 and this member 30 provides a pair of spring jaws 32 (Figs. 1 and which are adapted to secure therebetween a protective sleeve or collar 33 that is disposed on the electric cord 34 which is associated with the plugin switch 16 and Contact terminals 14 and 15 in a manner well known in the art.

A recess 85 is provided in the handle 13 and mounted in this recess by means of a suitable connecting element 36, is the female portion 37 of a securing element with which is associated the male portion 38' that is mounted on the bar 26..

t will be seen, therefore, that when not in use the bar 26 will rest in the dotted line position of Fig. 1, with the male element 3 disposed in the female element 37, the female element 37 being, preferably, a pair of spring jaws. By pivoting the bar 26 on the pintle 23 the said bar may be moved into upright position and the protective sleeve 33 disposed within the spring jaws 32 which will hold the cord 34 free of entangling engagement with the iron, or the article being ironed, and out of the Way of the operator, it being noted that the contact terminals 1% and 15 are mounted on the front or pointed end 39 of the iron instead of at the rear as is now customary in 5 the art.

lVhile I have illustrated and described the preferred form of construction for carrying my invention into effect, this is capable of Variation and modification Without departing from the spirit of the invention. I, there fore, do not Wish to be limited to the precise details or" construction set forth, but desire to avail n'iyself of such variations and modifications as come Within the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is;

A holder for the flexible member for sup- 90 plying the heating medium to an iron com prisinga pair of spaced upright members for attachment tothe iron each having a recess formed on its inner side, a flexible member holding element hingedly connected to said 55 members, a pair of yieldable arms attached to said holding portion and movable between said members, and a projecting portion. on each of said arms yieldably engageable in the recesses to hold the holding element and flexible member in upright position.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

WILLIAM MACKENZIE, JR. 

